Re: Determine the corresponding DISPLAY

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:45:03 +0100

In comp.security.ssh Wolfgang <nobody@pappnas.de>:
> Andrew Schulman schrieb:
>>>Is there a way, to determine the correspondig DISPLAY of the remote host
>>>if I have the lokal display, i.e. I login on neptun from saturn. On
>>>neptun the display is set to neptun:10, which is the display on saturn,
>>>can i find it out on neptun?
>>
>>
>> Which display do you mean? There are many displays on neptun. Display 0
>> corresponds to VT7, 1 corresponds to VT8, and so on.
>>

> when i use ssh with X-tunneling, ssh dont care for the local display, it
> just set up a virtual display on the remote host, tunnels the X output
> through that to the display of the local host.

> My problem is, i connect to a cytrix server, from where i use exceed (X
> server for windows), to which the display from ssh should be tunnel. THe
> IP and the display of the terminalserver is differs from login to login,
> and I dont want to look at the log from exeed to know the local ip and
> display, so I suppose that ssh knows where the tunnel ends to from the
> remote virtual display.

Still don't get your problem? Why care, X11 forwarding is
transparent you can login through a bunch of systems, X11 will
always be tunneled to the end point, if things are setup probably.

Only things that come to my mind.

- Install a real OS, forget about cytrix/exceed crap
- Please stop top-posting 

-- 
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 261: The Usenet news is out of date

Relevant Pages

  • SUMMARY: X11-SSH Tunnelling "Update" Problem with NetBackup
    ... think that the DISPLAY variable indicates that they are running ... Use VNC and tunnel that instead. ... > the window and click, some of the text charaters show up under your clicks. ... > Rather than tunnel the TCP through SSH, ...
    (SunManagers)
  • Re: X11 Forward : entire desktop ?
    ... the connection is comming (via a tunnel) from the localhost. ... every X application can be displayed on any Xserver ... do so (e.g. the xhost + command). ... display adapter on the local host. ...
    (comp.security.ssh)
  • Re: ssh -R from work to home and ssh from home to work
    ... intent to display X at work). ... I think the problem is that the ssh to the tunnel makes ... not root at that localhost (not sure if that was because sshd was running ... point of view on the remote, the mail appeared to come from its localhost. ...
    (comp.os.linux.networking)
  • SSH Tunneling of X protocol from non-interactive session
    ... I need to forward X terminal through the firewall from non-interactive ... I would like to open tunnel ... C> ssh -L6001:localhost:6000 M ... xterm Xt error: Can't open display: C:1 ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • SSH Tunneling of X protocol from non-interactive session
    ... I need to forward X terminal through the firewall from non-interactive ... I would like to open tunnel ... C> ssh -L6001:localhost:6000 M ... xterm Xt error: Can't open display: C:1 ...
    (comp.os.linux)